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Engraved Landscape Biesje Poort - Many Voices (Paperback)
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Engraved Landscape Biesje Poort - Many Voices (Paperback)
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Engraved Landscape Biesje Poort: Many Voices tell two stories. It
provides a valuable record of important pre-historic and historic
artefacts that would ordinarily be inaccessible to many South
Africans. But more significantly it showcase new ways of doing
research in a contested and fractured environment. Using a series
of historic rock engravings as a springboard, the various
contributors to the book- academics, communication experts,
historians, architects, local Khomani residents- probe questions
about the nature of heritage, about our differing cosmologies, and
about our links to the land. These are inevitably subject to
multiple interpretations and meanings, hence the multi-disciplinary
team invited to participate in this important investigation of our
heritage. – Melinda Silverman, department of architecture FADA,
university of Johannesburg. Like most brilliant and eye-catching
coffee table books, this compilation straddles the tantalisingly
academic and the pop (ular) in anthropology. Its scholarly sections
are well researched and tightly articulated. They retain this
quality without being dry and overly pedagogical, hence are
accessible to lay reader who wants to glean useful information. I
foresee this book contributing to media anthropology, receiving
critical appreciation. Descendants of the ‘First People’
participate as co-authors in the research- informants and people
with their own experiential or ontological perspectives. As
producers of new contemporary realities in a postcolonial South
Africa, their voices include stories and myths surrounding the
engravings, presented here in their own terms. As for the site, the
research and informants are aware of the need to protect and
preserve: the engravings that are the focus of the encounter are
fragile. Research paradoxically may itself result in deterioration
as people move over the rocks, but, here, awareness results in
research actions and methods that try to ensure care and
preservation. This is a heritage that requires informed
interventions and use so that posterity may continue to enjoy the
benefits of a valuable archaeological wealth. Dr Nhamo Mhiripiri,
department of media & society studies, Midlands State
university.
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